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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
greatness shy enough
You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough Chris Colfer
greatness men yams
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. Chinua Achebe
greatness where-you-are depends
Greatness depends on where you are coming from. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
greatness bears mark
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark. Dave Chappelle
imitation repetition observation
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. Denis Waitley
imitation equal predecessors
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth. Baltasar Gracian
imitation acquire
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke
imitation wit poorest
Borrowed wit is the poorest wit. Johann Kaspar Lavater
imitation rudeness strength weak
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength Eric Hoffer
imitation absurdity copies
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
imitation envious
I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation. Jeaniene Frost
imitation conviction
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others. Ernst Moritz Arndt
imitation raised contrast
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated. Joshua Reynolds